While Matt Harrison‘s no-hit bid was broken up with two outs in the seventh inning tonight against the Twins, the fans at the Ballpark in Arlington still got to witness a little history.

Adrian Beltre hit for his second career cycle as part of an 8-0 victory. He had an RBI triple in the bottom of the first inning, an RBI double in the second, a solo homer in the fifth and a single in the seventh to finish it off. He’s the third player to hit for the cycle this season, joining Scott Hairston and Aaron Hill (twice).

Beltre previously hit for the cycle on September 1, 2008 as a member of the Mariners. Interestingly enough, it happened against the Rangers and the opposing pitcher that day was Harrison.

This has been a big week for Beltre, who now has four straight multi-hit games. He hit three home runs against the Orioles on Wednesday.

Congrats. I was thinking cycle tonight. Zobrist started the game Homer triple, double, but couldn’t get the easiest ones. Something interesting happened though. He blooped one to center with Longo on 1st. Coco Crisp made a nice shoestring running catch. Longo had to go less than halfway because he is hurt. If that ball bounces, Crisp easlily throws him out at second. It got me thinking. How much would it suck to miss out on the cycle because of the old 8 -6 fielders choice

On edit, I don’t know if Giancarlo Stanton gets the respect he deserves.

hittfamily - Aug 24, 2012 at 11:36 PM

Who is the best 2nd baseman since 2008 according to fangraphs? Can he play the outfield. Has he played SS this year? Cano? Pedroia? Kinsleer? Uggla? Nope.

It is the guy that Harold Reynolds left out of his TOP 15 2ND BASEMAN FOR 2012. The guy who had to get a vote-in runoff by the fans to be the last allstar, in his 1 and only all star appearance). None other than the Zorilla. Also, best nickname considering todays nicknames only consist of the players first letter of his name, combined with the first syllable of his last name. I even heard heard Jose Molina called JayMo by Maddon tonight.

The dude can play any position on the field, and could hit 1-5 on any team in baseball. Ask your neighbor west of the Mississippi if he’s ever heard of him.

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Aug 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM

Who is the best 2nd baseman since 2008 according to fangraphs? Can he play the outfield. Has he played SS this year? Cano? Pedroia? Kinsleer? Uggla? Nope.

OK, so remind me again why the Red Sox traded Beltre, who was having a mega season at 3rd, a few years back? They got A Gonz – put him at 1st, sent Youk to 3rd? You can see where they all are now. And Beltre is having the last laugh. WTF are the Red Sox doing?

Me and my high school buddy saw this game tonight in Arlington..the funny thing happened…right before Beltre hit his homerun, I told my buddy I was making the call, and Beltre was about to send it in the seats, which he did…
Great game tonight…almost saw a no hitter to boot…good times! Go Rangers!